Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-07-20
LOCAL BREYTTIEs.

A special tea train of eighteen cars vsat
East last night.
Another fruit train of ten cars will be
!, sent East from Sacramento this evening.
The Superior Court has granted Apauline
| feraut divorce from Bertrand Feraut on
the ground of cruelty.
A gentleman down from Ell Dorado
| county says a Board of Trade is to be
organized in Placerville next week.
A musical and literary entertainment
| will be given by the young people of the
Chrlstan Chapel next Tuesday evening at
s o'clock
The town of Davisville has advanced to
the dignity of having night Waterman.
Chafe Sweltzer having been employed in
that capacity.
Assessor Frost has collected poll-taxes to
a total of about 81 500 so far this year-a
large increase over the amount collected
| last year to the same date.
About 1870 last night F. S. Hotchkiss
morse and cart were stolen from Thirteenth
and X streets, where the horse had been
left securely hitched by its owner.
The house of Constable Morgan, at Davis
vile, was completely destroyed by fire last
Saturday evening. No cause for the fire is
The work of enlarging the special stand
at Snowflake Park is in progress. and will
probably be completed by next Sunday.
when the Haverlys come here to meet the
A. d G.'s. of Stockton.
The engineers are busily engaged in sur
veylng the route of the railroad from
Shingle Springs to Placerville. The con-
tract for grading the same has been let to
Turton d Knox, of this city.
The average Signal Service temperature
yesterday was 64o, which is 70 cooler than
the normal temperature for that day. The
highest and lowest temperature was $50
and 49,, with fresh, southerly winds and
weather clear.
The steamers Flora, Governor Dana and
San joaquin, No. 3, have arrived from the
upper Sacramento, with barges loaded with
wheat, and the d. e. Knight passed
through with similar cargo from Marys-
vile to San Francisco
Charles r. Parsons and DIR. H. Latham.
of this city, recently sold to four Japanese
twenty acres of land in the foothills of
Calaveras county. the purchasers will
cultivate the land to various products in
dlgenous to their native country.
Lieutenant P. Flaherty leaves this morn
ing for Santa Cruz, having been appointed
by the officers of the First Artillery Regi-
ment to make arrangements for subsisting
the men while in camp there in August
He will be absent three or four days.
A few days since the six-year-old daugh-
ter OF 5. ?. Cutter, near Blacks, Yolo
county, was playing when in some way
she fell over small play wagon, sustain
ing fracture of one of her arms. The
fracture received immediate attention and
is doing well.
The State Board of Examiners met yes
terday and approved the audited claims
against the Drainage Commission. amount
ing to S14S, lis so. The unaudited claims
will be acted upon by the Commission TO-
day. The judgment claims will be con-
sidered at the same meeting.
Officer Franks, whose special duty it is
to see that the city ordinance relative to
signs and distractions of streets and side
walks are enforced, has made such good
progress that a wonderful change is ap-
parent in the business portion of the city.
Property-owners, seeing what an improve
ment has been effected, feel more inclined
to continue and in various ways make
good better"
The Woodland D1,mocrat saws that "Yolo
county hay is in demand in Sacramento
county. On Sunday John Meister, the
well-known Sacramento dairyman, and
Charles Miller, livery stable man, came
over TO Woodland in search of good hay.
and we understand that they bought
large quantity from Thomas Langenour.
north of town. Every year Sacramentans
come over to this county in search of hay"
The Gait Ga=ettes account of the falling
of a meteoric stone near that place last
Friday has attracted much attention.
Though generally regarded as a fiction. it
afforded opportunity for wide range of
speculation as to what might have been.
As lady remarked, was Just thinking
that If rock like that descended on the
house while l was inside, the reporters
would write at the close of the item, In
terment private
Martin Burns and his wife were again
arrested yesterday for getting drunk and
disturbing the peace at their residence,
Twelfth and j. streets, officer Lowell tax
ing them in charge. Burns was not very
much intoxicated-or troublesome, but Mrs.
Burns was whooping and creating such a
racket that the neighbors were exceedingly
indignant. She was but partially dressed
when the officer arrived at the house. and
he had difficulty in persuading her to put
on her apparel and accompany him. She
finally ran out into the woodshed, from
which it was tolerably easy to get her into
the hack the officer had procured for the
occasion. At the stauon-house she was
boisterous for several hours.
SINGULAR ACCIDENT.-The Woodland